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|dersen
|dersen
|-
|-
| colspan="6" |
! colspan="6" |
! colspan="5" |'hen' paradigms
! colspan="5" |'hen' paradigms
| colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |
|}
|}


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For the sake of clarity, the neuter grammatical gender is omitted from this table.
For the sake of clarity, the neuter grammatical gender is omitted from this table.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Inclusive possessive adjective (possessor of any gender)
|+Inclusive possessive adjective (ownership of any gender)
!Paradigm
!Paradigm
! colspan="3" |'dey/dej'<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
! colspan="3" |'dey/dej'<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
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! colspan="5" |De-e-System<ref name=":14" />
! colspan="5" |De-e-System<ref name=":14" />
|-
|-
!Gender of the possessed object
!Gender of the owned object
!<small>masc.</small>
!<small>masc.</small>
!<small>fem.</small>
!<small>fem.</small>
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|unserers
|unserers
|eurers
|eurers
|-
! colspan="10" |
! colspan="10" |'hen' paradigms
! colspan="4" |
|}
|}
The possessiv adjectives 'deren' and 'hens' offer the advantage of being easily learnable. As for the possessives suggested by the g-Genus, aside from appearing on nonbinary grammatical websites, they don't seem to have gained much popularity on online platforms. The possessive adjectives from the 'hän' paradigm are phonetically similar to the ones of the system proposed by Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, the editor-in-chief of the Duden.<ref name=":15" />
The possessiv adjectives 'deren' and 'hens' offer the advantage of being easily learnable. As for the possessives suggested by the g-Genus, aside from appearing on nonbinary grammatical websites, they don't seem to have gained much popularity on online platforms. The possessive adjectives from the 'hän' paradigm are phonetically similar to the ones of the system proposed by Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, the editor-in-chief of the Duden.<ref name=":15" />


=== Possessive pronouns and article pronouns ===
=== Article pronouns, possessive pronouns ===
Unlike possessive adjectives ('ein Eis', 'ihr Bleistift', 'unser Löffel'), possessive pronouns ('eins', 'ihrer', 'unserer') stand for the entire possessed object, so they are not followed by a noun or declined. Article pronouns are can both function as articles and pronouns without undergoing any formal changes (ex.: Diesen (Pulli) mag ich nicht.).<ref>Ertl, Martin (2022): ''Kasusauffälligkeiten in Lerntexten''. Bielefeld: wbv Publikation, p. 53.</ref> For that reason, demonstratives that also function as pragmatically marked personal pronouns (see table 'Personal pronouns: dominant usage'), are also considered article pronouns, as they can refer to an entire syntagma on their own, or accompany/precede a noun (ex.: Den (Julian) mag ich nicht).
Unlike possessive adjectives ('ein Eis', 'ihr Bleistift', 'unser Löffel'), possessive pronouns ('eins', 'ihrer', 'unserer') stand for the entire possessed object, so they are not followed by a noun or declined. Article pronouns are can both function as articles and pronouns without undergoing any formal changes (ex.: Diesen (Pulli) mag ich nicht.).<ref>Ertl, Martin (2022): ''Kasusauffälligkeiten in Lerntexten''. Bielefeld: wbv Publikation, p. 53.</ref> For that reason, demonstratives that also function as pragmatically marked personal pronouns (see table 'Personal pronouns: dominant usage'), are also considered article pronouns, as they can refer to an entire syntagma on their own, or accompany/precede a noun (ex.: Den (Julian) mag ich nicht). In the De-e-system, however, the declension of the demonstrative personal pronoun is different from the other article pronouns.<ref>Verein für Geschlechtsneutrales Deutsch e. V (2023): ''Demonstrativ-/Relativpronomen''. Online at: https://geschlechtsneutral.net/deklinationstabellen/ (retrieved 28.03.2024).</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Inclusive possessive and article pronouns (genderneutral/-inclusive owned subject)
!Paradigm
!'dey/dej'<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
!<span style="color:DarkBlue">'sier' Version 2.1</span><ref name=":8" />
!'xier' Version 3.3<ref name=":9" />
!<span style="color:DarkBlue">'hän'</span><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
!NoNa-System<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
!<span style="color:DarkBlue">g-Genus</span><ref name=":0" />
!De-e-System<ref name=":14" />
|-
!
!ex. with 'die' (plurall)
!
!
!
!ex. with 'jene·r·s'
!ex. with 'jede·r·s'
!ex. with 'eins·e·er'
|-
!'''Nominative'''
| rowspan="4" |derer
<small>(only attested possessive</small>
<small>pronoun for this paradigm)</small>
| rowspan="4" |?
| rowspan="4" |?
| rowspan="4" |?
|jenai
|<span style="color:DarkBlue">jedeo</span>
|einey
|-
!'''Accusative'''
|jenai
|<span style="color:DarkBlue">jedeo</span>
|einey
|-
!'''Dative'''
|jenam
|<span style="color:DarkBlue">jedero</span>
|einerm
|-
!'''Genitive'''
| -
|<span style="color:DarkBlue">-</span>
|
|-
! colspan="4" |
! colspan="3" |'hen' paradigms
!
|}
 
=== '''Adjectives and nominalized adjectives''' ===


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